Big Room
Big room is a style of festival house music with booming kick drums, long tense build-ups and sparse, hard-hitting drops designed for huge crowds.
It took shape around 2010 to 2012 as a blend of progressive house and electro house, made to suit the large festival stages and arenas of the EDM boom. Tracks sit at about 126 to 132 beats per minute, with long build-ups followed by a stripped-back drop driven by a four-on-the-floor kick drum and a simple, minimal melody. That bare drop is its trademark.
Artists it is known for: Martin Garrix, Hardwell, W&W, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Europe, early 2010s
- Also called
- big room house
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have big room among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Big Room artists
David Guetta
Tiësto
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Timmy Trumpet
AFROJACK
Headhunterz
Hardwell
W&WThe big room artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.